29 August 2010 - Adrian Sutil has finished a scintillating Belgian Grand
Prix in fifth position, his first points scoring finish since the British
Grand Prix and his best result of the season since the Malaysian Grand
Prix. Tonio Liuzzi came home in 11th position, less than one second from
tenth, despite having his front wing knocked off by Sebastian Vettel
while in the hunt for points. The result moves Force India 17 points
clear of Williams in the constructors' championship and Adrian into ninth
position in the drivers' title race.

When rain fell just two laps into the race Adrian stayed clear of the
ensuing chaos and remained out on dry tyres despite a safety car period.
On the restart Adrian was able to jump ahead of the Williams of
Hulkenberg into seventh and when Vettel and Button collided he was
elevated to fifth. He pitted for hard tyres on lap 21 but was able to
cruise past Kobayashi and then Schumacher to regain fifth. On lap 35
heavy rain started to fall and Adrian pitted for intermediate tyres. When
Alonso spun on lap 38 another safety car period was called, allowing the
German to move closer to the leaders. He finished the 44 lap race only
nine seconds from eventual winner Lewis Hamilton.

Tonio made a great start from P12 on the grid and was running in ninth
until his first stop on lap ten. He left the pits in 13th and gradually
worked his way back up the field to close on the points. However on lap
25 Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who had earlier become embroiled in
several on track accidents, knocked into the side of the Italian and
clipped his front wing. Tonio returned to the pits for a nosechange and
dropped down to 14th. When the rain arrived he pitted for extreme tyres
and gave a spirited drive to move back up to 11th by the chequered flag.

Adrian Sutil (car 14)
Another fifth place so I am very pleased as I started in P8. I think that
was the best we could do. It was very tricky conditions out there and you
never knew what would happen with the weather. When the rain came it was
sometimes light in places and heavy in others and I had to really
concentrate to drive it home safely. Of course I was racing closely so I
had to keep pushing, particularly after the safety car periods when the
field bunched up, so we had some great racing and overtaking. The
upgrades worked well and we can still improve - it was just the start of
the development, which looks good for the next race in Monza as well.

Tonio Liuzzi (car 15)
It was a tough race and it was a shame we couldn't get any points here
today. We had a good start but I suffered a lot of front and rear
graining on the soft compounds early on and also some damage to the front
wing. We decided to pit earlier and do a long stint with the hard tyres
and it was a pretty good decision as we had a good pace on this set and
were in P11, not that far from getting into the points. But then Vettel
tried to overtake me at the last corner and took my front wing off and
that cost us points in this race. We lost more than 30secs changing the
wing and without this I am pretty sure we could have finished in eighth
or higher. But the race pace was still good, the car has been consistent
and better than it has been all weekend so we could be proud of that. I'm
now looking forward to my home race in 15 days time in Italy.

Otmar Szafnauer, chief operating officer
We're obviously very pleased to be back in the points again today. Both
drivers demonstrated a strong race pace and we worked well as a team
monitoring the changeable weather conditions. Tonio was unlucky to miss
out on the points due to losing his front wing when Vettel ran into him.
The points are crucial for the championship at the moment and the pace
also bodes well for Monza in a couple of weeks' time.